According to the World Economic Forum (2025), employers expect 39% of key skills required in the job market will change by 2030. This will have implications across the spectrum, affecting all sectors, job levels and generations. With the Consumer Digital Index reporting that in 2023, 18% of adults in the UK did not have the digital skills that are essential in the workplace, groups such as older workers and smaller businesses are especially vulnerable to being left behind. Workplace changes will have wide-reaching skills and training implications, from new focuses on AI training to the maintenance of more basic digital skills and traditional competencies. Furthermore, as hybrid working increasingly becomes the norm, training for those new to the workplace is at risk of omitting more traditional problem-solving skills or exacerbating digital exclusion. How can industry and parliament work together to ensure all workers are equipped with the skills they need to thrive in an ever-changing workplace?

This event will:

• Assess how to reconcile the need for AI training whilst also maintaining broader digital skills.
• Evaluate how to support organisations of all sizes to upskill and include all workers in the digital transition.      
• Consider the role that traditional skills will continue to play in the future of work.